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J. J. BURK.

HOOP BLANK FOR BARRELS.

No. 248,672. Patented Oct. 25,1881.

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A I l D 0 e e" e Witnesses. Inyezzzfoz 1 I J/zn :IZBur/c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. BURK, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD M. JEWETT, OF SAME PLACE.

HOOP-BLANK FOR BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,572, dated October 25, 1881.

Application filed August 1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN J. BURI ,acitizen of the United States, residing in Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented certain new an d useful Improvements in Hoop-Blanks for Barrels, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a hoop-blank for barrels, casks, or kegs having certain marks thereon, whereby it may be readily brought to the size required andnailed or riveted so as to be fitted to the different-portions of a barrel, as will be more clearly hereinafter shown by reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of ahoop-blank asit is prepared for the market. Fig. 2 represents a hoop formed and. nailed ready to fit to a barrel; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a barrel, showing the position of the hoops thereon.

Arepresents an ordinary hoop-blank adapted to be nailed together when formed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In Fig. 2, aarepresentthenails or the heads of the nails or rivets by which it is secured together. There may be more or less than the numberof nails shown. The blank isprovided with three marks, 0 e eflforindicating the size of the several hoops to be applied to a barrel.

When the hoop is formed as shown in Fig.2 and the point C is brought to the mark 6 and then nailed together, it willform whatis known marks on them, so that the cooper may put together the sizes required without the necessity of measuring and marking.

The blank is marked by placing it on an ordinary foot-press having three blunt-edged chisel-shaped tools for making all the marks at once by ressing on the foot'step, the press being provided with an ordinary gage, so as to bring the blank to the proper position to be marked; but said marks may be made in any other way, as above mentioned.

I claim as my invention- A hoop-blank provided with marks 6 e e at the places Where the lapping end of the blank is to be placed to form, respectively, a head, under-head, and quarter hoop, as and for the purposes described.

JOHN J. BURK. Witnesses:

JAMES SANGSTER,

AMos W. SANGSTER. 

